FINE LYON EDITION OF A RENOWNED COMMENTARY OF THE LAWS AND ROYAL CONSTITUTIONS OF FRENCH KINGDOM IN THE RENAISSANCE

Rebuffi, Pierre. Commentaria in constitutiones, seu ordinationes regias: Non solùm iuris studiosis, verum etiam pragmaticis vtilissima, in quibus facilis ad praxim Curiarum Franciæ via, & iurium intellectus explicantur Lugduni (Lyon): Apud Hæredes Gulielmi Rouillii, M.D. XCIX (1599).

3 volumes bound together in a volume in-folio, late 17th century full calf with gilt coat of arms at covers, six raised bands spine (restored) with gilt decorations, pp. [2], 3-952, [62].
Title-page in red and black, engraved headletters, engraved head and tail pieces.

Fine Lyon edition of Rebuffi's commentary on the Constitutions of French kingdom.

Questions arising from royal legislative acts drew from Rebuffi these Commentaria which he dedicated in 1549 to the Chancellor Francois Oliver. Few of his contemporaries could match the depth of this volume, and fewer still its scope, which encompassed some of the most vexed and sensitive legal questions of the day.

Pierre Rebuffi (1487-1557) was a French jurist from Montpellier.
He was professor of Canon Law at the universities of Montpellier, Tolouse, Cahors, Bourges and lastly Paris. Pope Paul III wanted him as auditor at the Roman Rote. Among his other works there are a Praxis beneficiorum, a commentary to the title of the Digestum (lib. 50, tit. 16) De verborum significatione, an Explicatio of the first four books of the Pandects and many monographies.
Quentin Skinner describes Rebuffi as «the outstanding legist of a generation, beginning to write in an almost unyielding style».

Provenance: 1. Nobiliary gilt coats of arms (not identified) at covers. 2. Near contemporary signature at the upper blank margin of title-page.

References: Not in Adams. OCLC 43054383 locates 3 copies in US libraries (University of Chicago, University of Iowa, University of Kansas).

A fine copy, with an attractive binding.